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Uploading photos to Shutterfly via Python

Chad — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:14:23 +0000

I finally got done sorting my 2008 photos this morning so I can start putting Christmas gifts together with them and needed to upload about 280 pictures to Shutterfly, where I have been getting prints since about 1999. Of course I could do this with their uploader, but that would be quite lame now, wouldn’t it, considering I could use Python to do it. Using the code below, the IPTCInfo module and Jeremy Slater’s very cool shutterfly module he wrote for the GNOME Conduit Project , I can iterate through my entire 2008 photo directory, look for my photos tagged for upload, and upload them to a specific album on Shutterfly. Sweet!

from IPTC import IPTCInfo
import sys, os, shutterfly
class ShutterflyUploadr:
def __init__(self):
pass
def grab_new_images( self ):
""" Recurses thru directories and looks for images to upload. I only want to upload my '5-star' images, so we scan the IPTC tags for 'r5', my way of tagging my pics I really like (usually get prints of r5s) """
images = []
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('/users/chad/pictures/2008'):
for f in filenames :
# Grab IPTC keywords
info = IPTCInfo(os.path.join(dirpath, f))
# Is it a 5-star photo?
if 'r5' in info.keywords:
ext = f.lower().split(".")[-1]
if ( ext == "jpg" ):
images.append( os.path.normpath( dirpath + "/" + f ) )
images.sort()
return images
def upload( self ):
""" Upload images to Shutterfly """
user = 'your_user_name'
pwd = 'your_password'
sfly = shutterfly.Shutterfly(user,pwd)
# Get an existing album
album = sfly.getAlbums()['Album_Name']
image_list = self.grab_new_images()
for image in image_list:
album.uploadPhoto(image, 'image/jpeg', os.path.basename(image))
if __name__ == '__main__':
sfu = ShutterflyUploadr()
sfu.upload()
Download this code: shutterflyuploadr.txt

flickruploadr.py now in svn

Chad — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:48:45 +0000

I finally got around to getting a Subversion repository setup, so the latest development version of my flickuploadr.py can be checked out:

svn co http://svn.super-cooper.com/flickruploadr/trunk

or you can just get it at:

http://svn.super-cooper.com/flickruploadr/trunk

New toy

Chad — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:59:03 +0000

So I broke down and got a new toy the other day. We needed a camera to get pics of the youngin’, and my old digital wasn’t cuttin’ it anymore. I was kickin’ it old-school, big time. So the decision had to be made — film or digital?? I wanted an SLR for the features, but couldn’t really afford the one I wanted. And my other reason for not going digital SLR is that the prices of digital SLRs will keep going down while the technology only gets better, just as the case has always been with digital cameras. Hell, five years ago, I paid $500 for the Olympus D-450 Zoom. That camera would coast about $150 now. Also, I found that with my digital point and shoot, I had tons of pics that were just crap. Crap, really. Now, with the 35 mm, I feel that I take more time and put more thought into composing my shots. Maybe I know in the back of my head that I can’t afford to process three rolls a week either, huh? At any rate, the Nikon N75 is really nice so far. However, I am a novice, so my opinion might not really be worth that much. Shots to come soon…